Frank W. Zammetti wrote:
or you make every target conditional
unless="compile.disabled"
and then turn on and off on the command line
For the way I work, this isn't feasible... I don't use an IDE, I use
UltraEdit... I have a single keystroke that executes the script, and I
don't have the opportunity to alter the command line (that's not
*entirely* true... I *could* pass some things to it, but it's more trouble
than it's worth).
no, you create a build.properties file with all the various settings in,
and load it in at the beginning of your build
build.properties:
compile.disabled=true
load this with
<property file="build.properties" />
you get the switching, you get the IDE support, you get proper ant
dependency logic.
declaring dependencies is the core of ant's dependency logic.
Understood. But, except for the dependency task this thread started
about, my targets are all independant units, they aren't truly
dependencies. This is true of every script I've written to date. No
doubt it I had true dependencies I probably would change the way I do
thing s:)
you've just introduced dependencies, havent you? All your tasks now
depend upon the initial setup phase, which means there is nominally one
target that your others depend on
I'm not especially worried about the performance hit, but not being able
to pass information I could see burning me at some point certiainly.
Try the other way, try using dependencies. trust the runtime
steve
I do appreciate the suggestions Steve! :) I'm fine for now, but I will
keep in mind the things you said for when I reach the point where I'm not
any more.
I would recommend you start now, before you paint yourself into a
corner. By the time you discover that things are in a mess, it is
usually just before a deadline, the build is more complex, things are
too late to fix, etc, etc. Learn the right way at the beginning, when
the schedule pressure is least.
-steve
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